Motherless

About the Book

An island appears and disappears. A mysterious animal stands at the edge of the forest, watching. A door becomes a portal to the deepest secrets of the ocean. Through the darkness, a wolf strikes for life. Born in a downpour that breaks a record drought, she is named Rainy. A young Native American girl, orphaned at 5, she lives with her grandfather on the white sandy shores of the Florida coast. As she approaches adolescence, Rainy struggles with her love for the Earth and the horrors inflicted on our natural world, facing questions of loss and identity, and the very essence of the human spirit. They are questions that hours spent in classrooms, and even her grandfather’s ancient wisdom, cannot answer. Exasperated, a storm rages inside of her, ultimately releasing her own spirit to the storm raging outside, and lifts her into a dream that is more than a dream. Beyond this dream, in a place where the ordinary and extraordinary merge, Rainy Peek realizes her destiny and what it truly means to be MOTHERLESS.

“…the literary sheen Motherless shows and I am tempted, however ineloquently, to suggest that your book should be marketed (even as synopsis level) as an induction into the parallel world of which very few people are fully aware. Towards this end one feels that the great N.A.I tribes should be brought aboard; certainly they should be made aware of the potential for self-enhancement the novel would bring. Nowadays there are great swings towards the mysteries that hang around our conscious and unconscious: the efforts made often stimulated by seeking relief from the constraints imposed by family and provincial life so that the self may find room to expand. I mean, here we have a book that could well be used to shatter those symbolic chains fettering not only the individual, but also nations!”

— former poet laureate of Scotland, Sam Gilliland